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Journal of Democracy 12.4 (2001) 174-178



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Books Received


The books listed below were recently received by the editors. A listing here does not preclude a review in a future issue.

Advanced Democracies

America's Choice 2000. Edited by William Crotty. Westview, 2001. 213 pp.

American Foundations: An Investigative History. By Mark Dowie. MIT Press, 2001. 320 pp.

Bagehot: The English Constitution. Edited by Paul Smith. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 253 pp.

Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation. By Henry D. Sokolski. Praeger, 2001. 160 pp.

A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments. By John R. Vile. Praeger, 2001. 308 pp.

Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics: Styles of Engagement Among Grassroots Activists. By Stephen Hart. University of Chicago Press, 2001. 292 pp.

The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. By David Garland. University of Chicago Press, 2001. 307 pp.

Decisions on the U.S. Courts of Appeals. By Ashlyn Kuersten and Donald Songer. Garland, 2001. 331 pp.

Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age. By Wilson Dizard, Jr. Praeger, 2001. 215 pp.

Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy. By Mark R. Warren. Princeton University Press, 2001. 322 pp.

The European Union After the Treaty of Amsterdam. Edited by Jörg Monar and Wolfgang Wessels. Continuum, 2001. 338 pp.

France and European Integration: Toward a Transnational Polity? By Michel R. Gueldry. Praeger, 2001. 242 pp.

Hard Choices: Social Democracy in the Twenty-first Century. By Christopher Pierson. Polity, 2001. 169 pp.

Immigration and Welfare: Challenging the Borders of the Welfare State. Edited by Michael Bommes and Andrew Geddes. Routledge, 2000. 291 pp.

Judicial Power and the Charter: Canada and the Paradox of Liberal Constitutionalism. By Christopher P. Manfredi. Oxford University Press, 2001. 276 pp.

Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Edited by Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg. Oxford University Press, 2000. 314 pp.

Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda. By Patricia Heidotting Conley. University of Chicago Press, 2001. 220 pp.

Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age. By Doris A. Graber. University of Chicago Press, 2001. 231 pp.

Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe. Edited by David Broughton and Hans-Martien ten Napel. Routledge, 2000. 218 pp.

Representative Americans: The Colonists. Norman K. Risjord. Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 277 pp.

Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation. By Norman K. Risjord. Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 342 pp.

These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. By Susan Branson. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 218 pp.

Videostyle in Presidential Campaigns: Style and Content of Televised Political Advertising. By Lynda Lee Kaid and Anne Johnston. Praeger, 2001. 226 pp.

The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era. By Joel P. Rhodes. Praeger, 2001. 224 pp.

When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968. By Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman. State University of New York, 2001. 192 pp.

Africa

Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa. By Robert B. Horwitz. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 409 pp.

Opposition and Democracy in South Africa. Edited by Roger Southall. Frank Cass, 2001. 296 pp.

Asia

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. By Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot. Translated by Yair Reiner. Basic Books, 2001.

Elections and Democracy in Greater China. Edited by Larry Diamond and Ramon H. Myers. Oxford University Press, 2001. 200 pp.

From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. By Shelley Rigger. Lynne Rienner, 2001. 232 pp.

State and Nation in South Asia. By Swarna Rajagopalan. Lynne Rienner, 2001. 231 pp.

Understanding Korean Politics: An Introduction. Edited by Soong Hoom Kil and Chung-in Moon. State University of New York Press, 2001. 352 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Creating a Democratic Civil Society in Eastern Germany: The Case of the Citizen Movements and Alliance 90. By Christiane Olivo. Palgrave, 2001. 293 pp.

Nations in Transit: Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and the Newly Independent States. Edited by Adrian Karatnycky, Alexander Motyl, and...

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